Illuminating Thoughts by Colleen Anderson
ILLUMINATING THOUGHTS
Psyche’s Remorse
Each night as cool and black as weighted silk
he came to me, enveloped me, loved me
Each night he kissed me, whispered
then faded with the stars
I awoke to daylight in a fever
devoured the sight of every man
sure that one would claim me
waiting silently for my dream
The marketplace gossips laughed
A hidden husband who came in dreams?
How could I be a proper woman?
How could he support a family?
I never felt his gaze
Yet at night his heat consumed me
I began to burn in darkness
a brand never doused
Blinded by my need
I revealed my lover to the light
Winged, warm, too pure for mortal form
Eros awoke, scolded me, flew from my embrace
I searched for him, followed him,
suffered feats to be with him
and in the end the love I kindled
burned me through and through
I could not stay with people
after Eros took my heart
I only wanted love
not to rival a god’s splendor
Was it knowing godhood
he had tried to hide from me
or the knowledge of my lost humanity
that I have learned to mourn?
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